WikiLeaks… Fundamental rights being eroded, journalists intimidated in 1974

By April of 1974, the US Embassy here was reporting back to Washington that fundamental rights were being eroded and journalists were being intimated.

In a cable dated April 10, 1974, US Ambassador Max V Krebs in response to a question said that there were no instances of internment or imprisonment for political reasons but that the country’s political system was “evolving in (an) authoritarian direction and fundamental